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Name: rostov principality

Type: Cluster

Start: 1208 AD

End: 1474 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Rostov Principality
  • Rostov Principality (Mongol Empire)
  • Rostov Principality (Golden Horde)
  • Establishment


  • January 1208: In 1207 a sub-principality of Rostov was established again under Konstantin Vsevoloditsch.
  • Chronology


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    1. Mongol invasions and conquests


    Were a series of military campaigny by the Mongols that created the largest contiguous Empire in history, the Mongol Empire, which controlled most of Eurasia.

    1.1.Mongol invasion of Kievan Rus'

    The Mongol Empire invaded and conquered the Kievan Rus' in the mid-13th century.

  • April 1238: In 1238, during the Mongol invasion of Rus', Batu Khan led the conquest of several principalities including Vladimir, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yuriev-Polsky, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Uglich, and Kozelsk. These territories fell under the control of the Rostov Principality within the Mongol Empire.

  • 2. Mongol Civil Wars


    Were a series of wars between the successor states of the Mongol Empire.

    2.1.Toluid Civil War

    Was a war of succession over the Mongol Empire fought between Kublai Khan and his younger brother, Ariq Böke, from 1260 to 1264.

    2.1.1.Division of the Mongol Empire

    The Mongol Empire fragmented into four successor states at the beginning of the Toluid Civil War.

  • January 1261: The Mongol Empire fragmented into four political units: the Golden Horde, the Ilkhanate, the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1475: In 1474, the Grand Duke Ivan III, bought the remaining half of the Rostov principality from the last Rostov princes.
  • Selected Sources


  • Kopalyan, N. (2017): World Political Systems after Polarity, Taylor & Francis, p. 164
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